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The state of Thule is a strange state. Located in the very far north of the Commonwealth of Hyperborea, Thule is cold, mountainous and harsh. Forst much of the past 80 years, Thule has been dominated by the Northern League, a cultural/political/religious organization run by Olaf Eikmeier. The Northern League classifies itself as "volkish theosophy", mixing Germanic neo-paganism and modern Theosophy. The Northern League has been run through its entire history by 116 year-old Olaf Eikemier, who's been the Governor of Thule four times having served as governor for 49 out of the past 69 years, and he was previously the Speaker of the Territorial Assembly before satehood. He's also been a U.S. Senator since statehood, though he's never taken his seat. He's been expelled from the Senate seven times for absenteeism and for also serving as governor, but each time, he's been appointed or elected his own successor (the Senate has effectively given up trying to remove him, with the last explusion having come in 2101). Despite having never taken his seat, Eikmeier does have a staff at his D.C. office, though many Senators feel that it's not as much as a congressional staff as it is a team of missionaries and pagan priests.
The Northern League has a tight grip on the political and cultural life of Thule. Visitors often comment on just how alien and foreign Thule feels when compared to the rest of Hyperborea and Galileo. Traditional American civic society (Democratic and Republican parties, Columbianism, Christianity, Rotary Club, etc.) are found clustered in the northern region of Thule around the port city of Archangel. The Minutemen have little pressence in Thule, with most security duties handled by the Thule National Guard which largely operate seperately from the overall Hyperborea National Guard command structure. There have been numerous federal investigations into Eikmeier (tax evasion, tax fraud, voter fraud, voter intimidation, embezzlement, polygamy, child sexual abuse, kidnapping and murder), but all attempts to investigate have been stimmied and have gone nowhere.